- Meet Arpit Kabra, a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary, and practicing CA.
- He qualified as a CA in 2009 and as a Fresher joined Deloitte in their Tax team and then moved to Ernst & Young.
- Whilst working in the Big 4 was tempting, he had the desire to start something on his own in an absolutely new and unconventional area of practice.
- After 8 months of struggle and waiting patiently, he got a breakthrough, and eventually found a niche for himself in Forensic accounting and Investigation. Starting with just one assignment to tackling over 300 forensic assignments, he has come a long way.
- As a part of the CA Chronicles Series Powered by Tally, we spoke to Arpit to share his story of how he patiently earned a breakthrough and created his own luck with expertise!
The dilemma of pursuing science and moving to commerce
I was born in Kishangarh (Ajmer) in Rajasthan however while still in school my parents moved to Mumbai, the city of dreams.
Hailing from a humble middle-class family, my father struggled a lot while transitioning to the new way of life in Mumbai despite being a CA.
In the beginning, we lived in a chawl in Ulhasnagar and grew up in a very humble Sindhi neighborhood where everyone took great care of each other like one big family.
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